Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 24:17

17 Guò le jǐ nián , wǒ daì zhe zhōujì bĕn guó de juān xiàng hé gòng xiàn de wù shàng qù .

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 24:17 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 24:17

Now after many years
Absence from Jerusalem; it was now about five and twenty years since his conversion, and most of this time he spent among the Gentiles; three years after it he went up to Jerusalem, and fourteen years after that, ( Galatians 1:18 ) ( 2:1 ) but it had now been some years since he had been there:

I came to bring alms to my nation;
the collections which were made among the Gentile churches, particularly in Macedonia, for the poor saints at Jerusalem, ( Romans 15:25-27 ) ( 2 Corinthians 8:1-4 ) .

and offerings;
either for the day of Pentecost, according to the usages of that feast, or the offerings on the account of the vow of the Nazarite, ( Acts 21:26 ) . The Vulgate Latin version adds, "and vows"; unless the spiritual and evangelical sacrifices of prayer and praise can be thought to be meant, since the ceremonial law was now abrogated; though it is manifest the apostle did at some times, and in some cases, comply with the Jews in the observance of it, in order to gain some.

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 24:17 In-Context

15 Bìngqiĕ kào zhe shén , pànwàng sǐ rén , wúlùn shàn ĕ, dōu yào fùhuó , jiù shì tāmen zìjǐ yĕ yǒu zhège pànwàng .

16 Wǒ yīncǐ zìjǐ miǎnlì , duì shén , duì rén , cháng cún wú kuī de liángxīn .

17 Guò le jǐ nián , wǒ daì zhe zhōujì bĕn guó de juān xiàng hé gòng xiàn de wù shàng qù .

18 Zhēng xiàn de shíhou , tāmen kànjian wǒ zaì diàn lǐ yǐjing jiéjìng le , bìng méiyǒu jù zhòng , yĕ méiyǒu chǎo nāng . wéiyǒu jǐ gè cóng yà xī yà lái de Yóutaìrén .

19 Tāmen ruò yǒu gào wǒde shì , jiù yīngdāng dào nǐ miànqián lái gào wǒ .